There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Gays are beginning to realize what blacks learned long ago: Unless you are out here fighting for yourself then nobody else will… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
I am suggesting that we can and do regain eternity when we are so immersed in life, in moral action, or in… — Don Cupitt Copy Share Image
Here was the rub: one must be more zealous to please God than to avoid sin. One must sacrifice oneself utterly to… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
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Saying someone is religious is heard in most of America as a compliment, a reassuring affirmation that someone will be moral, ethical,… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Of how much importance is it, that the utmost pains be taken by the public to have the principles of virtue early… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Discovery can give no right of ownership, for whatever is discovered must have been already here to be discovered. If a man… — Henry George Copy Share Image
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The five points of yama, together with the five points of niyama, remind us of the Ten Commandments of the Christtian and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our Lord's miracles were all essential parts of His one consistent life. They were wrought as evidences not only of His power,… — James McCosh Copy Share Image
In the event of a violent revolution, we would be sorely outnumbered. And when it was all over, the Negro would face… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. A journalist is someone who looks at… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
Conservatives say the government can't end poverty by force, but they believe it can use force to make people moral. Liberals say… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself;… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes — morals, behaviour, everything.… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our… — King Felipe VI Copy Share Image
There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
If Christ would have left Christian ethics codified on the table, then he wouldn't produce moral beings choosing between good and evil,… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Eroticism is mystique; that is, the aura of emotion and imagination around sex. It cannot be 'fixed' by codes of social or… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
In every case, we ought to act that part towards another, which we would judge to be right in him to act… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
We've lost our moral foundation, which allows us to go this far over. So I don't blame Trump. I just think he… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
I try and take everyone's ideals, common morals, flip them around, make people look at them differently, question them, so that you're… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
[Black nationalism] is not designed to make the black man reevaluate the white man--you know him already--but to make the black man… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The moral thing I should wish to say to them is very simple; I should say: "Love is wise - Hatred is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
The limitation in our ability to perceive broad distinctions in scope can be applied to our moral and temporal responses… We agonize… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
The truth is every problem can't be solved by government. Many are caused by the moral breakdown in our society. And the… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body &… — Plato Copy Share Image
My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Washington is not a place to live in. The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the… — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
“Morality is an evolutionary adaption for any sentient species. Our survival is promoted by working together, and any group requires a moral… — Jasper T. Scott Copy Share Image
Economics evolved as a more moral and more egalitarian approach to policy than prevailed in its surrounding milieu. Let's cherish and extend… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
He was a lifelong Republican, but over the years, Harry Blackmun built a reputation as a liberal, sometimes defiant Justice, whose fierce… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
Religion can be a good thing, but basically the way I look at it is that it provides a moral code, common… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
For Rousseau and Mandeville the absence of a moral instinct meant the laws of society had no moral validity, they were nothing… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
The common moral praxis of Jews and Christians is most definitely theologically informed by the doctrine we share in common: The human… — David Novak Copy Share Image
“Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of… — United Nations Copy Share Image
To me this technical acceptation seems not applicable here, where we have to deal with the simplest moral precepts, and not with… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
![“[Black nationalism] is not designed to make the black man reevaluate the white man--you know him already--but to make the black man re-evaluate himself. Don't change the white man's mind; you can't change his mind. And that whole thing about appealing to the moral conscience of America--America's…” quote by Malcolm X](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/999/malcolm-x-213_america_black-nationalism-is-not-designed-to-mak_1741004.jpg)
